Microsoft yesterday claimed that its newest browser, Edge, had increased its usage faster than did Google’s Chrome after its 2008 launch.

“[Edge is] ahead right now of even the start of Google Chrome, a very successful browser, has gotten off to,” said Charles Morris, a program manager on the Edge team, during a Wednesday session at Build, Microsoft’s annual developer conference.

Morris used that to illustrate Microsoft’s belief that Edge has been doing fine in attracting users, a counter to some of the commentary about the browser’s uptake. Computerworld, for example, has characterized Edge adoption as surprisingly weak, considering that it is the default browser in Windows 10 and Microsoft’s aggressive efforts to make sure customers ran it, including dropping support of many older versions of Internet Explorer (IE) and changing users’ browser preference when they upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.1.

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